Mankind has recently embarked on space exploration and its secrets will be revealed very soon. But something scientists already know. Here top 7 amazing things and phenomena that were discovered in space.
7. Alcohol
Several giant clouds of alcohol have been found in the Milky Way region. In addition to their old friend, ethanol, scientists discovered large clouds of methyl alcohol and vinyl alcohol.
These clouds are too far away to be able to do anything fun with them. However, their existence is of great interest to scientists and not for the reasons that alcohol lovers might think of. Alcohol is an organic compound and carries the basic materials necessary to sustain life. Finding these molecules around areas where stars were recently formed will tell more about how our world was created and how life appeared in it.
6. Tiny Art Museum
In 1969, during Forrest Myers' top-secret mission, which operated without permission from NASA, the work of Andy Warhol and five other artists on a 1.9 cm ceramic plate? 1.3 cm were sent to the moon. Thus was created the first and only extraterrestrial art museum.
It is alleged that the plate was secretly attached to the leg of the lunar lander and left on the moon as a result of the Apollo 12 expedition. But to prove that the plate really is on the moon is possible only if you send a special space mission there.
5. Death Star
Kepler, the NASA telescope, recently discovered a white dwarf in the constellation Virgo, which tears apart its own planet, although not as spectacularly as in Star Wars. The dwarf gradually destroys the planet revolving around it under the influence of attraction. Final destruction will occur within the next million years.
4. Oort Cloud
At first glance, there is nothing special in the Oort cloud. This large portion of the solar system throws a comet from time to time, giving us space shows such as Halley's comet.
So what's the catch? Scientists are not sure that the Oort cloud exists at all. But it is their only plausible explanation for the appearance of comets that come out of nowhere, appear at strange time intervals and move in unusual orbits.
3. Lightning
For two billion light-years from Earth, the ghost of Nikola Tesla sets up a lightning show. In the center of the galaxy, the strongest electric current in the entire history of space observations was recorded - 10 ^ 18 amperes or a trillion lightning bolts. Lightning usually appears near black holes, where magnetic fields create large electric charges.
This particular storm probably came from a particularly massive black hole.
2. Urine
You may have wondered: how do astronauts write in space? NASA scientists spent a lot of time discussing this issue. The answer was a toilet for $ 50,000, complete with a gateway that throws urine into outer space. Although newer models use high-tech filtration systems that turn urine into drinking water, most older systems simply throw urine overboard.
Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan called the form of urine droplets turned into ice one of the most amazing events of his flight.
1. Life on Titan
First place in the ranking of space surprises: NASA has found promising signs of life in the cold oceans of Saturn’s largest satellite, Titan. They do not consist of water, but of ethane and methane, which are liquefied at extremely low temperatures. The organisms in these “methane-filled” waters will be similar to those on Earth (composed of cells with the respiratory system), but instead of oxygen-based cells, these organisms will have methane-based cells. Experiments have shown: such cells can exist in extreme conditions on Titan. This study, in addition to indications that the atmosphere of Titanium is chemically active, dense and rich in organic compounds, is one of the most promising prerequisites for finding life on Titan.
